On Dec 2, 2011, at 7:41 AM, monotasker wrote: > It resolves to > http://127.0.0.1:8000/topoi/plugin_listandedit/list/notes/static/plugin_framework/fonts/websymbols-regular-webfont.woff > > This is treating the font url as relative to the full request URL (including > arguments), not the app root directory. That's what's confusing me.
This is when your url is 'static/...', right? That's normal behavior, and nothing to do with web2py. The browser knows that it accessed http://127.0.0.1:8000/topoi/plugin_listandedit/list/notes and all relative URLs are relative to that path. The browser knows nothing about how elements of the path are interpreted by the server; a path is a path. To summarize, what you want is this: > > http://127.0.0.1:8000/topoi/static/plugin_framework/fonts/websymbols-regular-webfont.woff but without specifying 'topoi', because you want it appname-independent, right? One option is the <base> tag (generated dynamically via a template, so you don't type the appname literally): <base href="/topoi/" /> The problem is that it applies to *all* relative URLs, so make sure you take that into account. Fortunately the URL() helper always generates absolute URLs. Another option is to server your CSS files dynamically via a css controller. Depending on your application, the performance hit needn't be too bad if you make sure that the generated pages are cached by the browser. This is a handy technique, because it lets you parameterize anything you like in your CSS.
